German composer Josephine Lang was born March 15, 1815. Lang, a prodigiously talented pianist and dedicated composer, participated at various times in the German Romantic world of lieder through her important […]
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Remembering composer Robert Ashley
Avant garde composer Robert Ashley passed away Monday, March 3. One of the leading American composers of the post-Cage generation, Ashley’s innovations began in the 1960s when he, along with […]
Jazz saxophonist and UIP author Joe Evans, 1916-2014
Accomplished jazzman Joseph James Evans passed away on January 17, 2014 at age 97. His autobiography, Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues (written […]
Q&A with Making the March King author Patrick Warfield
Patrick Warfield is an associate professor of music at the University of Maryland and the editor of John Philip Sousa: Six Marches. He recently answered our questions about his new […]
Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary – $2.99 eBook sale
Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary By Stephen Calt To celebrate the holiday season we have lowered the eBook list price of Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary to $2.99 (through […]
The Organs of J. S. Bach – $2.99 eBook sale
The Organs of J. S. Bach: A Handbook by Christoph Wolff and Markus Zepf To celebrate the holiday season we have lowered the eBook list price of The Organs of […]
Meet the Press: Laurie Matheson
During University Press Week, the UIP is joining other members of the university press community for a blog tour. Individual presses will blog on a different theme each day, including […]
Happy birthday to ‘The March King’ John Philip Sousa
Happy 159th birthday to John Philip Sousa. Sousa began his musical education learning the violin at age 6, and when he was 13, his father enlisted him in the United […]
$2.99 eBooks sale for Society for Ethnomusicology meeting
To coincide with the Society for Ethnomusicology annual meeting November 14-17, 2013, in Indianapolis, we are offering eBook versions of three University of Illinois Press titles on sale for $2.99. The […]
$2.99 eBook sale for NWSA meeting
To coincide with the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) annual meeting November 7-10, 2013, in Cincinnati, Ohio, we are offering eBook versions of three University of Illinois Press titles on sale for […]
Chuck Haddix: the young Bird took flight in Kansas City
Charlie Parker’s emergence on the New York City jazz scene in 1942 changed the trajectory of jazz forever. Chuck Haddix, author of Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker, […]
Happy birthday, Charles Ives
American Modernist composer Charles Ives was born on October 20, 1874. In his book Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer, David C. Paul charts the changes […]